"Walthamstow School for Girls plans to implement the changes in September next year with phones found to breach the new rules being confiscated for up to eight weeks. Parents of Year 6 primary school girls about to apply for places at the over-subscribed State secondary have been warned of the forthcoming smartphone-free policy at open evenings. Helen Marriott, headteacher at Walthamstow School for Girls, said the aim was to address an increase in harmful online behaviour by students and create a more compassionate school community."
"She told The Standard: We think the smartphone-free school initiative will have a positive impact by making students less reliant on their phones, more focused on learning and less apt to view the online world as a more attractive alternative. We believe it will improve students' mental health and wellbeing: the seven- to eight-hour window when they travel to and from school and are in the building will be an opportunity to switch off' from the online world and focus on the real one."
Walthamstow School for Girls will introduce a smartphone-free policy from September, with phones that breach the rules subject to confiscation for up to eight weeks. Parents of Year 6 applicants were warned about the forthcoming policy at open evenings. The policy aims to reduce harmful online behaviour, lower student reliance on devices, increase classroom focus, and improve mental health by enforcing a seven- to eight-hour device-free window while travelling to, from and in school. Current practice requires smartphones to be handed in at the school office; under the new rules students may bring internet-free 'brick' phones that must be switched off and kept in bags, with breaches leading to confiscation and parental return.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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